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Overconfidence and confirmation bias: are future managers vulnerable?
(2015-02-19)
Decision makers often use ‘rules of thumb’, or heuristics, to help them handling decision situations (Kahneman and Tversky, 1979b). Those cognitive shortcuts are taken by the brain to cope with complexity and time limitation ...
Biased perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from a survey experiment
(Elsevier Science, 2013-02)
Individual perceptions of income distribution play a vital role in political economy and public finance models, yet there is little evidence regarding their origins or accuracy. This study examines how individuals form ...
Authors report lack of time as main reason for unpublished research presented at biomedical conferences: a systematic review
(Elsevier, 2015)
OBJECTIVES: To systematically review reports that queried abstract authors about reasons for not subsequently publishing abstract results as full-length articles. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: Systematic review of MEDLINE, ...
Confirmation bias in individual-level perceptions of psychic distance: an experimental investigation
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, 2015-11)
In this article we draw from social cognition theory to explore the influence of confirmation bias on perceptions of psychic distance. Despite the prominence of psychic distance, and other forms of distance, as potential ...
Bayesian Estimation for Performance Measures of Two Diagnostic Tests in the Presence of Verification Bias
(TAYLOR & FRANCIS INCNEW YORK, 2010)
Sensitivity and specificity are measures that allow us to evaluate the performance of a diagnostic test. In practice, it is common to have situations where a proportion of selected individuals cannot have the real state ...
Gender bias in clinical research, pharmaceutical marketing, and the prescription of drugs
(CO-ACTION PUBLISHING, 2014-01-01)
This thesis is part of the studies of gender bias in health which together with the paradigm of evidence-based medicine shares the empirical assumption that there are inaccuracies in medical practice, in addition to a lack ...
The Purine Bias of Coding Sequences is Determined by Physicochemical Constraints on Proteins
(Libertas Academica, 2015)
A new approach for biased affine estimation
(IEEE, 2014)
The problem of biased affine estimation is discussed in the present paper. Affine estimation is a technique for improving parameter estimation through the inclusion of a-priori information in a non-bayesian setting. Here, ...
Bias in subject representation: Convergences and divergences in the international literature
(2014-01-01)
Terms chosen to represent document subjects, the classification notations assigned to them, the abstracts and indices contain biases in two contexts. In a negative context, document surrogates are constructed with bias ...